Legal Research

With the general election less than two months away, we're at a quadrennial high for stretched truths, fact shading, lies, damned lies, statistics, spin, and periodic outbreaks of flaming pants. Ouch!

How do you sort out the facts from the "facts"?  LLRX's new article Political Fact-Checking Websites by information consultant Peggy Garvin provides a good overview of the major fact checking websites, the people and organizations behind them, and their methods of separating fiction from non-fiction.

Garvin also mentions that popular urban legend checking website Snopes.com can be useful in this realm, because it "tends to cover rumors (faked videos, altered photos, and the like) that the others don?t touch," as well as those ubiquitous email forwards.